Guantanamo prisoner goes home

With tears of joy, hugs and flowers, a family has welcomed home a 27-year-old Kuwaiti who spent more than three years in US custody after being arrested in Afghanistan.

14 Apr 2005 03:08 GMT

Nationals of 40 countries are held in Guantanamo

Hours earlier, on Wednesday, a criminal court in Kuwait city ordered the release on bail of Nasir al-Mutairi whom the United States captured in Afghanistan in 2001 and detained at GuantanamoBay, and returned to Kuwait in January.

His lawyer, Mubarak al-Shimmiri, said the judge had ordered al-Mutairi's release after discussions in chambers following a hearing in his trial.

Bail was fixed at 200 Kuwaiti dinars ($680) and al-Mutairi is not allowed to leave Kuwait.